Meera Syal
Acting
- Born:
- 1961-06-27
- Place of birth:
- Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, UK
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Meera Syal MBE (born Feeroza Syal on 27 June 1961) is a British comedienne, writer, playwright, singer, journalist, producer and actress. She rose to prominence as one of the team that created Goodness Gracious Me and became one of the UK's best-known Indian personalities portraying Sanjeev's grandmother, Ummi, in The Kumars at No. 42. She was awarded the MBE in the New Year's Honours List of 1997 and in 2003 was listed in The Observer as one of the fifty funniest acts in British comedy. Description above from the Wikipedia article Meera Syal, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Prodigies
Phony
Lysistrata
The Revenge Club
Tinsel Town
National Theatre at Home: A Tupperware of Ashes
Uncanny Post Mortem
Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out
Our Tiny Islands
Samosa & Sons
The Canterville Ghost
Mrs Sidhu Investigates
The Smeds and the Smoos
The Almond and the Seahorse
The Devil's Hour
The Sandman
Roar
The Wheel of Time
Beena and Amrit
Spin
Diana's Decades
We Are Lady Parts
Dragon Rider
Between the Covers
Comedians: Home Alone
Code 404
Kate & Koji
Yesterday
Back to Life
Nativity Rocks!
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
Patrick
To Provide All People
The Homestay
The Split
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
Paddington 2
House of Games
Brexit Shorts: Just a T-shirt
Riviera
Our Lives
Don't Ask Me Ask Britain
We Have Been Watching
Walliams & Friend
Doctor Strange
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
John Bishop: In Conversation with...
Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version
Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version
The Brink
Amar Akbar & Tony
National Theatre Live: Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Absolutely Anything
The Boy in the Dress
Original Comedy Shorts
All About TWO
Duck Quacks Don't Echo
The Musketeers
The Kumars
Crackanory
Psychobitches
Family Tree
The Job Lot
Love Matters
Broadchurch
Hunted
Much Ado About Nothing
All in Good Time
Silk
Little Crackers
Tinga Tinga Tales
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
Desert Flower
Mad Sad & Bad
Horrible Histories
Grandpa in My Pocket
Minder
Beautiful People
When Were We Funniest?
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
Phineas and Ferb
Jekyll
Would I Lie to You?
Jhoom Barabar Jhoom
Kingdom
The Amazing Mrs Pritchard
The One Show
Scoop
The Children's Party at the Palace
School's Out
Uncle Max
The F Word
Nigella
The Secretary Who Stole £4 Million
8 Out of 10 Cats
Monkey Trousers
Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee
Doctor Who
Who Do You Think You Are?
King of Bollywood
Parkinson
Derren Brown: Trick of the Mind
New Tricks
QI
Murder Investigation Team
Anita and Me
Dawn French's Girls Who Do Comedy
Bitches & Beauty Queens: The Making of Miss India
All About Me
The Jury
Johnny Vaughan Tonight
The Kumars at No. 42
Treasure
Linda Green
Bedtime
Double Income, No Kids Yet
In Deep
Aladdin: The ITV Pantomime
Fat Friends
Forgive and Forget
The Strangerers
Loose Women
It's Only TV But I Like It
Bad Girls
Holby City
Sixth Happiness
The Mrs Bradley Mysteries
Girls' Night
Goodness Gracious Me
Parkinson
Flight
Holding On
Wavelength
Ruby
Keeping Mum
Midsomer Murders
A Night in with the Girls
Crossing the Floor
Beautiful Thing
Degrees of Error
Band of Gold
It's Not Unusual
Room 101
A Nice Arrangement
Jo Brand Through the Cakehole
O Mary This London
Memsahib Rita
GMTV
Absolutely Fabulous
Gummed Labels
Sean's Show
My Sister-Wife
Soldier Soldier
The Real McCoy
Kinsey
Have I Got News for You
Drop the Dead Donkey
Interviewers From Hell
This Morning
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
A Little Princess
To Have and to Hold
Handsworth Songs
Boon
Black Silk
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾
Screen Two
Majdhar
The Bill
Natural World
Taggart
The South Bank Show
An Audience with...